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Georges St-Pierre has a perfectly acceptable explanation for why a fight with Nate Diaz, which Dana White announced earlier this month was in the works for UFC 227, doesn’t make any sense for him.

Here’s how the former two-division champion sees it.

“Nate Diaz is an incredible fighter, very well rounded,” St-Pierre said. “If you put yourself in my shoes there’s nothing good that can come out of it except for money, and money isn’t the only thing that drives me. If I beat Nate Diaz decisively, most people will say, ‘He took an easy fight.’

“The (critics) will say, ‘He’s a bully. He fought a smaller guy that competes at a smaller (division).’ A lot of (lightweight) guys are bigger than me right now. He’s about the same size as me, but because I compete at 170 for most of my career, it will make me look bad. It will make me look like a bully. And this is if I win decisively.

“If I win decisively, and it’s a war back and forth, people will say, ‘Ah, he sucks.’ If I get beat? Oh my God, forget it. For my legacy it’s the end of the work I put in. It’s finished. And I could have a bad day.”

So, there you have it: If St-Pierre (26-2 MMA, 20-2 UFC) comes back to the octagon, it won’t be to fight Diaz. But if not Diaz, then who?

For our latest Daily Debate, we asked that question of MMAjunkie readers and MMAjunkie Radio listeners, and the results were close between Khabib Nurmagomedov, Conor McGregor and Tyron Woodley.

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